deviations

What she and Gallo looked for were significant deviations from that stable average.

The magnitudes of the changes were calculated in terms of standard deviations, which are used in statistics to convey how tightly a group of data points is clustered together.

Medical studies suggest that changes are perceptible if they exceed 0.5 standard deviations.

Many of Trump’s deviations from the truth stem from his style of political speech, where he routinely speaks in superlatives and employs populist language to cast himself as a strongman leader who can do no wrong.

In doing so, it paints policy ideas now popular on the right as strange deviations from American values.